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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do gender politics\, the Sino-Japanese War\, Cold War anxiety\, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday\, November 28\, when Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars present their recent research!  \n\n\n\nAt the workshop\, scholars will present research on gender politics in Chinese film\, contemporary Taiwanese literature and media studies\, environmental and technological history\, and rural Chinese economic history.   \n\n\n\nQ&A and discussion will follow each talk.    \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. Lunch will be served at 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this form if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSchedule:  \n\n\n\n12:15 pm      Welcome   \n\n\n\n12:30 pm      Yuan Zhang\, Assistant Professor in the School of International Education\, China Women’s University  Gender Politics and Chinese Film  \n\n\n\n1:00 pm       Chi-yu Lin\, Fellow of the Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program\, National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan A Cold War Anxiety of Influence: Cousin Lianyi 《蓮漪表妹》\, 1935-1985  \n\n\n\n1:30 pm       Miwa Shimada\, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law\, Keio University The Northwest Development and China’s Frontier Image: Focusing on Inner Mongolia during the Sino-Japanese War  \n\n\n\n2:00 pm       Qin Hui\, Professor of History\, Emeritus\, Tsinghua University Why the Cultural Revolution Matters Today  (This talk will be delivered in Chinese)  \n\n\n\n2:30 pm       Closing Remarks  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholars-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Wei Ran - Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei Ran\,  Associate Professor\, Institute of Foreign Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind\, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the Global 1960s\, many Latin American leading intellectuals\, such as Pablo Neruda\, José Venturelli\, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia\, visited Maoist China\, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries to reconstruct the experiences of their (dis)encounters with revolutionary China in the 1960-70s\, though travelogues\, memoirs\, documentaries\, archival records\, and contemporary novels. I will appropriate Contemporary Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Volver la vista atrás (2020) as Ariadne’s thread to sketch several Latin American travelers’ trajectories in Revolutionary China’s labyrinth. Key Latin American travelers’ experiences not merely synergistically created a Chinese version of Tricontinentalism and global solidarity\, but rather creatively modified some of the uniform discourses of Mao Zedong’s thought on literature and culture into centrifugal and transgressive critique. My central argument is that the pioneering literary and cultural creativity of the cross-border Latin American travelers led the way in the conceptualization of socialist cosmopolitanism\, rather than economic and trade cooperation in the 1960-70s. After five decades of the global 1960s\, facing Latin American postmemory archives\, such as Volver la vista atrás\, this talk\, by challenging fixed epistemological patterns\, seeks to suggest new perspectives towards the transnational utopian ruins. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-ran-latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang - China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management \n\n\n\nProfessor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017\, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\nProfessor Huang is the author of 11 books in both English and Chinese and of many academic papers and news commentaries. His books\, Statism with Chinese Characteristics (Cambridge University Press) and The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination\, Autocracy\, Stability and Technology in Chinese History and Today (Yale University Press)\, will be published 2023. He is collaborating with Chinese academics on a book project\, The Needham Question\, based on a comprehensive database on Chinese historical inventions and politics. \n\n\n\nHe is a co-Principal Investigator in a large-scale multi-disciplinary research project on food safety in China. Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab\, which have provided low-cost consulting services to hundreds of small and medium enterprises in China and India. From 2015 to 2018\, he ran a program in Yunnan province to train women entrepreneurs (funded by Goldman Sachs Foundation). He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. National Asia Research Program named him one of the most outstanding scholars in the United States conducting research on issues of policy importance to the United States. He has served as a consultant at World Bank\, Asian Development Bank and OECD\, and serves on advisory and corporate boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations. He is a founding member and is serving as the president of Asian American Scholar Forum\, a NGO dedicated to open science\, protection of rights and well-being of Asian American scholars. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lvxz1T6XQYyaO-oqO43Jdw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yasheng-huang-chinas-long-march-from-politics-to-economics-and-from-economics-to-politics/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T113000
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SUMMARY:The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhao Shuyang\,  Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China\, the manuscript era prevailed\, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production bestowed upon these books’ distinct features such as flexibility\, unpredictability\, and individuality. During this period\, people came up with various strategies to accommodate these traits to facilitate the smooth dissemination of written works. Adapting to this manuscript-based literary culture\, the ancients in China developed specific ways of life that left a lasting impact on fields like history\, culture\, and literature. These historical lifestyles are different from what we know today and interpreting them through the perspective of the print era could lead to misconceptions. A genuine understanding of these lifestyles and the historical documents they produced is only possible when contextualized within the manuscript era. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T120000
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SUMMARY:Japan\, China\, and Global Economic Orders
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Sophia UniversityJi Miao\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow\, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Ferris University  \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kristin Vekasi\, Associate Professor\, School of Policy & International Affairs\, University of Maine \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcu-opz4jG9CZCNE8XoULjrk0yWkWzINY#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/japan-china-and-global-economic-orders/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling - Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xiaoqiao Ling\, Associate Professor of Chinese\, Arizona State University \n\n\n\nThis paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation in the late Ming narrative tradition. Early vernacular short stories (huaben) are typically dismissed as haphazard patchworks of disparate textual segments. Pioneering scholars such as Patrick Hanan have mostly used these stories for dating purposes and for tracking textual pedigrees and influences. Feng Menglong (1574–1646)\, in his 1620 compilation of Stories Old and New (the first of the Sanyan collections)\, dismissed two of such stories as “coarse and frivolous\,” failing to meet literati sensibilities. Yet these stories certainly had broad commercial appeals at the time. Anthologized repeatedly in late sixteenth-century miscellanies that fitted texts of different literary forms in upper and lower panels on a leaf\, these stories facilitated serendipitous connections in readers’ minds given the proximity of texts that packaged familiar tropes in novel permutations. Using ecology as a metaphor to examine literature’s engagement with its environments\, this research proposes to rethink these stories in terms of how they were experienced in their immediate textual environments housed by sixteenth-century miscellanies. Such a perspective also allows for new ways of contextualizing the huaben tradition in a distinctive regional community that embraced literary sightseeing as a predominant mode of reading. \n\n\n\nXiaoqiao Ling is Associate Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University. Her main field of interest is late imperial Chinese literature with a focus on performance texts\, vernacular fiction\, and print culture. She has published in both Chinese and English on fiction and drama commentary\, legal imagination in literature\, memory and trauma\, and Sino-Korean reading practices. She is the author of Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2019) and editor of Minor Discourses: Aesthetics of the Everyday (National Taiwan University Press\, forthcoming). \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqce2hrzsoHdaOgEkIVGI4yJGHKkwYCnzF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-xiaoqiao-ling-rethinking-early-huaben-stories-miscellanies-and-literary-ecologies/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T130000
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SUMMARY:Xiao Xiaoyan - Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiao Xiaoyan\, Professor\, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis study reports an on-going project attempting  to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949\, as part of the reform in social welfare and relief system\, the Chinese government established state-owned social welfare factories to provide its disabled citizens with a stable job. The presenter has interviewed Deaf employees who have retired from or are still working for the Beijing Sanlu Factory (北京三露厂)\, originally the Beijing Carpet Factory for the Deaf and Mute (北京聋哑人地毯厂)\, one of the very first two welfare factories built in Beijing in 1958 to provide concentrated employment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. While most of the earlier welfare factories in China went bankrupt\, Sanlu still survives\, after dramatic reforms and restructuring. Over 800 Deaf people have been employed here. Some of the older Deaf workers were hired since 1958 and have witnessed the ups and downs of the factory throughout the earlier decades\, while younger employees were outsourced to the Johnson & Johnson-bought Dabao (大宝) Makeup Co. Ltd\, the most successful subsidiary and top selling brand of the Sanlu group. Together\, life histories and collective memory of these Deaf workers provide a glimpse into the lives of the world’s biggest Deaf population and a unique perspective to showcase China’s larger political\, economic and social reform and transformation over six decades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiao-xiaoyan-living-history-and-collective-memory-of-deaf-people-in-a-chinese-social-welfare-factory/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China's New Playbook
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Keyu Jin\, Professor of Economics\, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang\, Professor\, Department of Economics; Director\, Center for History and Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group and has worked with the World Bank\, the IMF\, and the China Banking Regulatory Commission\, and is a non-executive board member of the luxury conglomerate Richemont and the global bank Credit Suisse. \n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Beijing\, she attended high school and college in the United States and holds a BA\, MA\, and PhD in economics from Harvard University. She resides with her family in Beijing and London. \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yAZCG4XTQVmTnDxa3UbteA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-keyu-jin/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Jihon Kim - Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jihon Kim\, Fulbright Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of International Cooperation\, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow\, Institute of International Studies\, Seoul National University \n\n\n\nChair: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Department of History\, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences \n\n\n\nSince 2015\, conflicts at UNESCO over the historic interpretation of Japanese colonial rule and wartime actions in the first half of the 20th Century among three East Asian countries\, Japan\, Korea\, and China\, have been fierce. Japan nominated the Meiji Industrial Heritage Sites for the World Heritage List in 2015. This brought a huge backlash from Korea and several other countries as some of the sites had used forced labor from Korea and China during WWII. In the meantime\, China successfully inscribed the Documents of Nanjing Massacre to the Memory of the World Register in 2015\, despite the strong complaint from Japan. However\, nomination on the archives of Comfort Women was postponed for further communication between Korea and Japan in 2017\, which is still pending.  \n\n\n\nThis talk explains how these recent heritage wars at UNESCO result from dissonant or competing ideas of the colonial and wartime past in East Asia. Based on my personal experience\, my focus will be on bilateral and multilateral diplomacy by both State and non-State actors. This talk tries to answer the question of how we might deal with legacies of colonial rule and wartime memories in East Asia in a more inclusive way and invites ideas from the participants.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jihon-kim-heritage-wars-legacies-of-colonial-rule-and-wartime-memories-in-east-asia-for-unesco-nominations/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation\, Welfare\, and Optimal Recipient Design
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Naixin Huang\, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics\, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow \n\n\n\nInternational mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model\, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and explore its optimal recipient allocation. We find that 2017’s 44.2 billion USD mitigation finance can reduce 533 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 1.5% of 2017’s world total. Each recipient country’s welfare increased and the total welfare of all providers increased. In addition\, to maximize carbon mitigation\, finance should be redistributed to a small number of countries with the lowest marginal mitigation cost instead of large emitters. Marginal mitigation cost is determined by the initial ratio of clean energy quantity to dirty energy quantity\, clean energy endowment\, price index\, and carbon emission coefficient. Global welfare would be raised by redistributing finance\, as it can reduce 875 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 2.5% of 2017’s world total. \n\n\n\nNaixin Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in economics from Tsinghua University. Her research with HCP research associate Dr. Mun S. Ho and visiting Prof. Jing Cao focuses on the global carbon price floor’s welfare effects and optimal design. The 2°C goal is challenging to reach\, and it will be essential to consider the international differences in mitigation costs and benefits. IMF (2021) proposes a system of global carbon prices in which countries at different economic levels assign different carbon prices. Using a global trade model\, she and colleagues seek to illustrate the impact of such a differentiated price floor system. Then\, they seek an alternative design for the worldwide carbon price floor. Besides the global carbon price floor\, she and visiting Prof. Jing Cao also researched international climate finance’s welfare effects and optimal design. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-mitigation-finance-carbon-mitigation-welfare-and-optimal-recipient-design/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:He Wenkai - Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: He Wenkai\,  Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity\, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates how in each case a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation provided a common platform upon which state and society collaborated to provide public goods such as famine relief and large-scale infrastructural facilities. In this way\, state and society strove to overcome their respective weaknesses in attaining good governance. Moreover\, each discourse of state legitimation entailed ‘passive rights’ that allowed subordinates to justify their demands on the state to redress welfare grievances; these often took the form of collective actions. Conflicts between domestic welfare and other dimensions of public interest\, however\, could instigate cross-regional and cross-sectoral mass petitions for fundamental political reforms that were likewise justified by the state’s proclaimed duty to safeguard the public interest; these mass petitions might ultimately transform the state. Such a political ‘great divergence’ occurred in England (1760s-1780s) and Japan (1870s-1880s)\, but not in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-wenkai-book-talk-public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20231116T160646Z
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SUMMARY:Hou Zhe - Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hou Zhe\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThe assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era in China. This principle\, along with the beliefs that “education serves proletarian politics” and “education should be combined with productive labor”\, underscored the legitimacy and importance of the working class in this transformative period. This talk aims to delve into the multifaceted role of the working class in shaping the educational landscape during this revolution. It will explore the instrumental role of the Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams within the educational systems and the impact of the School Revolutionary Committees within educational institutions. Furthermore\, it will examine the implementation and outcomes of labor education across various types of schools during this era. By doing so\, this discussion seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between class\, politics\, and education within the context of China’s historical and socio-political fabric. \n\n\n\nMore info: www.harvard-yenching.org/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality-the-working-classs-role-in-chinas-education-revolution/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20231017T151635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T165743Z
UID:34019-1702380600-1702386000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yan Fei - Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Fei\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow\, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nStudents of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined by their existing social positions\, leading to well-defined political alliances with fixed objectives and unwavering identities. However\, during periods of radical instability\, political ambiguity and contingency often disrupt the rigidity of these established models of mobilization. Drawing from a detailed examination of popular uprisings and factional contention in Guangzhou City and Haifeng County during the years 1966-1968 with the more abundant sources available today\, this study identifies two critical mechanisms—namely\, contextual ambiguity and adaptive choice—that serve as intermediaries in shaping political alignments in moments of radical change. It is argued that within rapidly changing and ambiguous political environments\, the process of group formation is predominantly driven by emerging interests as factional struggles evolve\, rather than being firmly rooted in pre-existing social antagonisms. Throughout this dynamic process\, new political identities emerge\, and political interests are continuously redefined\, often giving rise to violent conflicts of increasing magnitude and influence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-fei-factions-in-flux-intergroup-collaboration-and-conflict-in-the-red-guard-movement/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20231130T172853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T143443Z
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SUMMARY:Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Fellows Brendan Li\, Shujun Li\, Tony Liu\, and Mitch Presnick will explore the role of business in Xi Jinping’s “new era\,” from technology to finance\, manufacturing to services\, as well as opportunities for collaboration between Chinese and American enterprises.   \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event open to Harvard community members. The discussion will not be recorded. Lunch will be served from 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this RSVP form to let us know if you plan to attend: https://forms.office.com/r/xiyjHRMqzw  \n\n\n\nFeaturing four Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars of Practice:   \n\n\n\nBrendan Li Wangzhi (Brendan) Li is a lawyer and finance expert. He is the Founding Director and core tutor of Entrepreneur’s Training Camp at Peking University and was previously a Founding Partner of Lao Niu Charitable Foundation and a professional investor in the Citigroup Investment Banking Department. His research interests are related to constitutional law and Chinese politics. After graduating from Peking University Law school\, he became an attorney in China. He has a BA from Columbia University.   \n\n\n\nShujun Li Shujun Li is an entrepreneur and a social philosopher. He is Founder and Managing Partner of Trustbridge Partners. His research project\, tentatively titled “Impact of Diversity on Economic Development and Social Stability in Modern China\,” explores the influence of ethnic and ideological diversity on economic prosperity\, social stability\, and policy progression in modern China.   \n\n\n\nTony Liu Quan (Tony) Liu is Chairman and Founder of Beijing United Information Technology Co.\, a B2B e-commerce platform for online commodity transactions\, business information services\, and internet technology services. His research project focuses on exploring future opportunities and challenges of business cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises in the context of today’s U.S.-China relations. Liu graduated from Renmin University with a BA in Finance.  \n\n\n\nMitch Presnick Mitchell Presnick is founder of Super 8 Hotels China\, an economy hotel chain with more than 1100 locations\, and APCO Worldwide China\, a public affairs consultancy. His current research explores the practical realities and challenges inherent in this new era of China’s business relations with developed countries. Presnick studied at Peking University and Rutgers Business School and has spent 35 years in Beijing and Hong Kong.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/business-in-chinas-new-era-roundtable-discussion-with-fairbank-center-visiting-fellows-of-practice/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T203000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20231116T173755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T173757Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion - Elections in Taiwan: Time for a Change?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Lev Nachman\, National Cheng-chih UniversitySarah Newland\, Smith CollegeTsai Chia-hung\, National Cheng-chih University \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven Goldstein\, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wtZbw7TYQXqu39XnL6pU_A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-panel-discussion-elections-in-taiwan-time-for-a-change/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20240104T171740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T175322Z
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SUMMARY:Election Results in Taiwan: Assessing Their Impact on Taiwan's Political Development and Cross Strait Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Douglas H. Paal\, Distinguished Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director\, American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006)Sarah Liu\, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics\, University of EdinburghJi Ye\, Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies\, Xiamen University \n\n\n\nChair: Steven Goldstein\, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jsuQw_ArSrS330mlcOHzxw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-taiwan-election-talk-how-will-the-results-impact-politics-and-cross-strait-relations/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
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SUMMARY:Chen Tuo - The Pope! A Utopian Model in Late Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chen Tuo\, Assistant Professor\, Faculty of History\, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program\, 2023-2024 \n\n\n\nChair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler\, Associate Professor\, History\, Boston College; Director\, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Translation\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-tuo-the-pope-a-utopian-model-in-late-ming-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T150000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20240119T195421Z
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SUMMARY:The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Wenchi Yu\, Nonresident Research Fellow and international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS televisionEric Huang\, Former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party\, Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs   \n\n\n\nJoin the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a webinar on Taiwan’s recent presidential election\, which earlier this month saw the Democratic Progressive Party’s Lai Ching-te capture the presidency. To understand what this means for the future of cross-straits relations as well as Taiwan’s relationship with the United States\, we will hear from nonresident research fellow Wenchi Yu\, an international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS television; and Eric Huang\, a former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party and current Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student at the Kennedy School. This discussion will be moderated by Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-implications-of-taiwans-presidential-election/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20240123T155446Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University.  \n\n\n\nRodenbiker’s new book Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nRodenbiker’s work focuses on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California\, Berkeley.  \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-jesse-rodenbiker-ecological-states-politics-of-science-and-nature-in-urbanizing-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T163000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20240124T193035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T193038Z
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SUMMARY:Feng Song - Progress in China’s Electricity Market Reform and Assessing Its Impact on Generation Efficiency
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Feng Song\, Associate Professor\, School of Economics\, Renmin University of China; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/feng-song-progress-in-chinas-electricity-market-reform-and-assessing-its-impact-on-generation-efficiency/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T211500
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
CREATED:20240126T145706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T145707Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard China Law Symposium - Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges\,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels\, concluding with a festive Lunar New Year social. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-china-law-symposium-longevity-building-resilient-bridges/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
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SUMMARY:2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador Robert Lighthizer — China and the Trade Trap
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amb. Robert Lighthizer\, 18th United States Trade Representative (2017-2021) \n\n\n\nThe American government and public increasingly doubt the benefits of our economic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Since 2018\, the United States has raised tariffs on Chinese imports\, imposed restrictions on the export of high-tech American goods to Chinese firms\, and limited Chinese investment in the American market. Join us for a discussion with former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer\, a key architect of many of these changes\, as we examine the merits of these policies and explore the future direction of U.S. economic relations with China. \n\n\n\nThe Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture is designed to present the perspectives of scholars whose work about China link the academic world and government service. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:Robert E. Lighthizer served as the 18th United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021.   \n\n\n\nAn experienced trade negotiator and litigator\, Ambassador Lighthizer spearheaded several historic trade agreements as USTR\, ushering in a new era of fair\, balanced\, and reciprocal trade for U.S. workers\, producers\, and businesses.  Significant among these accomplishments\, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)  rebalanced and modernized trade in North America\, expanded U.S. market access\, protects our workers and the environment\, and incentivize manufacturing in the United States.   \n\n\n\nHe also negotiated important trade agreements with South Korea and Japan greatly expanding U.S. trade opportunities in those countries and established a groundbreaking paradigm for digital trade.  \n\n\n\nAfter confronting China on its abusive trade practices\, Ambassador Lighthizer negotiated  the U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement\, a fully-enforceable agreement that addresses China’s discriminatory treatment of U.S. companies\, intellectual property theft\, and currency manipulation \, while maintaining tariffs on key Chinese products and increasing China’s purchases of U.S. goods and services.   \n\n\n\nHe also brought attention to systemic issues and outdated\, ineffective rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, placing unprecedented pressure on the WTO’’s Appellate Body and working with our trade partners on wider reforms. \n\n\n\nAt the time he was chosen by President Trump to serve as USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer had been a partner at Skadden\,Arps for over 30 years. Before that\, Ambassador Lighthizer served as Deputy USTR for President Ronald Reagan and negotiated over two dozen bilateral international agreements\, including agreements on steel\, automobiles\, and agricultural products.  As Deputy USTR\, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. \n\n\n\nPrior to becoming Deputy USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole.  In this position\, he was a key player in enacting the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 – the most significant tax reform in decades – and other elements of the Reagan economic program. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer earned a Bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a native of Ashtabula\, Ohio. He writes and speaks often on issues of international economics\, trade\, China and U.S. politics. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer recently published a book on trade policy\, its importance for America and what was accomplished in the Trump administration entitled No Trade Is Free: Changing Course\, Taking On China and Helping America’s Workers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-ambassador-robert-lighthizer-china-and-the-trade-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
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SUMMARY:Yu Dong - Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu Dong\, Professor\, Institute of Cultural Heritage\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross\, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-dong-exploration-of-food-resources-by-a-neolithic-community-in-northern-china-perspectives-from-stable-isotope-analysis/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T131500
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Ji Li - How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ji Li\, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, University of California – Irvine \n\n\n\nRising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These important questions have received little academic attention. To narrow the gap\, Ji Li conducted multi-year surveys of Chinese companies operating in the US\, about 180 interviews with business and legal professionals\, and archival research involving numerous legal documents. The study found a theoretically and empirically nuanced picture featuring firm-level variations based on multiple factors such as ownership structure and cultural differences. Notably\, the coping strategies\, especially legal strategies\, adopted by Chinese firms have lasting impacts on both US law and US-China relations.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment\, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an Olin Fellow in Law\, Economics and Public Policy. After law school\, he practiced corporate and tax law for several years in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li’s teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics\, international business transactions\, contracts\, comparative law\, and empirical legal studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-ji-li/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260521T220250
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T170531Z
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SUMMARY:Mingwei Song - Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Science and Technology\n\n\n\n\nRegister for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mingwei Song\, Wellesley College \n\n\n\nSpecial Guests:Mu Ming\, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng\, Fudan University \n\n\n\nCohosts:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityJie Li\, Harvard Univeristy \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mingwei-song-fear-of-seeing-a-poetics-of-chinese-science-fiction/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T120000
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SUMMARY:Craig Allen - China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Craig Allen\, President\, US-China Business CouncilModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/craig-allen-chinas-economic-development-model-implications-for-us-japan-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The China Challenge and America's Future
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi\, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison\, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-china-challenge-and-americas-future/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Jiajun Zou - Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jiajun Zou\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Emory University  \n\n\n\nJiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92\,000 juren profiles. In his presentation\, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset\, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources\, computational techniques\, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will then present statistical and macro-level evidence of a geographical bias within the examination system\, underscoring how proximity to examination centers at both the provincial and national levels significantly impacted odds of success. Zou contends that the examination system displayed a clear proximity bias\, favoring those closer to central hubs in terms of outlasting and exhausting their group competitors over time. The challenges faced by peripheral prefectures and regions are attributed not to a lack of talent—as some of the most distant prefectures produced the highest number of juren in China but only a handful of jinshi. Moving beyond the narratives of educational and intellectual traditions\, Zou explores whether rising costs of competition\, influenced by geographical and social dynamics\, shifted the balance of political power in Ming China. This presentation aims to highlight the value of a macro analytical approach using a large dataset to reveal hidden trends and to encourage modern scholars to independently tackle research challenges with innovative digital techniques. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Reigster: https://bit.ly/exam-luck \n\n\n\nAn event sponsored by China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) and Digital China Initiative (DCI)\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jiajun-zou-is-examination-success-the-result-of-geographical-luck-new-ming-provincial-examination-dataset-and-its-macro-social-and-historical-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire - Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss\, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure\, only to be met with a stock market crisis in 2015\, a crackdown on official and private sector market participants\, and then a serious reconfiguration of financial system governance. Now China appears on the verge of another stock market crisis. To transition from export and investment-driven growth to domestic consumption and innovation requires a modern financial system\, but modern financial systems do not tend to thrive under authoritarian rule. Is it possible for the CCP to develop deep financial markets? What do financial developments in China mean for its growth trajectory and its role as international financier? \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire (任美格) is an associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, where she teaches the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. A new project investigates the influence of diasporas\, and the overseas Chinese communities in particular\, in the progress of economic and political reforms in the homeland. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. In 2015\, she won the Faculty Teaching Award in the Required Curriculum at Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-meg-rithmire/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 - Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China\, Korea\, and Japan\, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories\, legacies\, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces\, times\, and disciplines\, which includes (but is not limited to) history\, philosophy\, religion\, literature\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, economics\, political science\, gender studies\, environmental studies\, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here. \n\n\n\nFor detailed information\, visit: https://linktr.ee/harvard_heas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2024-knots-complex-legacies-and-imagined-futures-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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